- 1主動積極的（相對 reactive「被動反應」；求職常看到）
If you are proactive, you act first. You do not wait for trouble and then jump. You plan, you start, you change things before they go wrong. Offices and schools love this word. Job ads ask for a proactive person — someone who does not sit still until they are told. It sounds positive, and a little like office talk. Though actually, the word is younger than it feels. It was built from pro- plus active for psychology in 1933. A few years later Viktor Frankl used it in a much deeper way in his book Man’s Search for Meaning: even as a prisoner in the Nazi camps of the Second World War, a person could still choose how to meet what happened, rather than only being pushed. In everyday talk now it is lighter — send the email first, book the doctor first. The pair people always put with it is reactive: acting after something has already happened.
From the word’s history
From pro- + active; coined in 1933 in a psychology paper.
由 pro- 加上 active 組成，1933 年首見於心理學論文。
組成From pro- (forward, in advance) + active. Coined in 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper; used in a popular sense of courage and perseverance in Viktor Frankl’s 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning, as a contrast with reactive.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
proactiveadj/pɹəʊˈæk.tɪv/
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Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.
- We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.
- Staff are also proactive in approaching any passengers looking as though they need assistance, rather than waiting to be approached.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。